In 1998 authors Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor came together as a teaching team.
Their mission is to preserve and present the inner teachings of pre-Christian European beliefs and practices as foundational elements of Old World Witchcraft.

Raven and Stephanie founded the College of the Crossroads in 2002, as a mystery tradition school of witchcraft. Later in 2009, the organization was restructured to form the Fellowship of the Pentacle.

In 2006. Raven and Stephanie established a system of witchcraft known as the Ash, Birch and Willow tradition (ABW). Its purpose is to provide individuals with training and teachings that were once available only within the secret society of witches. The ABW tradition blends the Old Ways with modern needs, and is therefore ever ancient and ever new.

As teachers, Raven and Stephanie together bring more than four decades of personal training and experience in the beliefs and practices of witchcraft. What they share goes beyond things drawn from published materials and personally learned from various teachers. Raven and Stephanie offer deeper levels of knowledge and experience that can only come from directly penetrating the inner mysteries through the great Quest itself.

Among the inner mystery teachings, Raven and Stephanie teach the concept of the “organic memory” of the earth. This concept is known as “Shadow” and contains the absorbed memory of all living things that died on the earth. Included in the teachings are the gateways to the Realm of Faery and the bridge ways to the Otherworld and Underworld. Magical and ritual arts are also taught.

Donald Michael Kraig graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy. He has also studied public speaking and music (traditional and experimental) on the university level. He received a fellowship to the University of Southern California where he received a certificate in multimedia, 3D graphics, computer animation and web design, eventually going on to help teach those classes there. As a musician he has performed before tens of thousands of people, including opening for acts ranging from Elton John to Great White.

After a decade of personal study and practice, Don began ten years of teaching courses in the Southern California area. He became a certified Tarot Grandmaster, has been a member of many spiritual and magical groups, and is initiated into several Tantric traditions. He holds numerous advanced certificates in clinical hypnotherapy, including teaching credentials, and is a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Llewellyn’s New Times magazine and FATE magazine, as well as producing and starring on “The FATE Magazine Radio Hour” in Minnesota. Don has lectured all over the U.S. at virtually all of the major festivals and conventions (and many smaller ones) as well as at universities. He has also lectured in Europe. He specializes on topics including Kabalah, Tarot, Magick, Tantra, Hypnosis, Past Lives, The Chakras, The Sri Yantra, Evocation of Spirits, and Sex Magick.

His books include Modern Sex Magick and Tarot & Magic. His Modern Magick, the most popular step-by-step set of instructions in real magick ever published, has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. A vastly expanded and revised third edition of Modern Magick was recently released. His fantastic mystery, an exciting, magick-oriented first novel called The Resurrection Murders, is also thrilling readers. He has also contributed to several books including Ecstasy Through Tantra, Planetary Magick,The Rabbi's Tarot, several volumes of The Golden Dawn Journal series, and The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy. Besides his books and contributions to websites, magazines, as well as appearances on TV, radio shows, podcasts and vodcasts, Don is the editor of Llewellyn's free, on-line encyclopedia.

Orion Foxwood is a conjurer in the American southern folk tradition, a traditional witch and a Faery Seer. He is the founder of Foxwood Temple of the Old Religion in Maryland and the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute; and a co-founder of Conjure Crossroads and the annual Folk Magic Festival held in New Orleans. For over 25 years he has lectured extensively and been a media and public presence on southern conjure, witchcraft, folk magic and Faery practices and other magical and spiritual subjects. He is the author of two books, The Faery Teachings and The Tree of Enchantment; DVDs entitled Introduction to Faery Seership, Introduction to Southern Conjure, and Orion: On the Goddess; and a collaborative CD project with RJ Stewart, Faery Seership. He was born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.